Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian (Armenian: Հրակ Վարդանեան) is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the arts blogzine Hyperallergic. He is an arts writer,[1] art critic[2] and art curator.[3]

Life and work

Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria,[4] raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His blog-magazine Hyperallergic was founded by Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009 [5] as a "forum for serious, playful and radical thinking".[6] Vartanian has contributed to numerous online and print publications including the Art:21 blog,[7] Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail,[8] Huffington Post,[9] AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine,[10] and NYFA Current.[11] He has guest contributed to Al Jazeera,[12] NPR,[13] ABC,[14] and WNYC.[15][16][17] He was formerly Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization. Vartanian was a staunch supporter of the controversial Hide/Seek exhibit which was censored by the Smithsonian.[18]

Writings

  • "Do Bush's Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?" (February 2013)[19]
  • "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism" (March 2010)[20]
  • "Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)[21]
  • "The Very Public Life of Street Art" in Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)[22]
  • "Peter Sourian" from "Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers" edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007)[23]
  • "An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian's Dialogue with Egoyan" from Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan edited by Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell (Waterloo, ON: Wildred Laurier University Press, 2006).[24]
  • Bushwick Open Studios featuring artists: Andrew Ohanesian, Tescia Seufferlein, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Richard Martinez.
  • "Schwierige Wahrheiten: Die Schriftstellerin Nancy Kricorian (The Will to Resist: A Portrait of Nancy Kricorian)," in Porträt einer Hoffnung Die Armenier edited by Huberta von Voss (Verlag Hans Schiller, 2004). English edition[25]
  • "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[26]
  • "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[27]
  • "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[28]
  • "Artist Biographies," The Clement Greenberg Collection (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2001).
  • FutureHype/Kitabet, edited by Carmen Donabedian & Hrag Vartanian (Beirut: Haigazian University, 1998).
  • "Chine Drive: An Arts & Crafts Community," in The Stuff Dreams are Made of: The Art and Design of Frederick and Louise Coates (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1997).

References

  1. ↑ Meehan, Emily (24 January 2007). "Never Mind the Bullets". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ↑ Aaron Short (24 January 2011). "Art of the steal! Thief swipes a Ridley Howard drawing off gallery wall". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "New York Public Radio - Live Radio Streaming - WNYC 93.9FM". WNYC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Lean, edited by Huberta von Voss ; translated by Alasdair (2007). Portraits of hope : Armenians in the contemporary world (1st English ed.). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-84545-257-5. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  5. ↑ Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media: The online outline was ranked highly in a survey of 300 arts journalists by Mary Louise Schumacher, 24 May 2018
  6. ↑ "About Hyperallergic", Hyperallergic.com 24 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "Hrag Vartanian | ART21 Magazine". blog.art21.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  8. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  9. ↑ Vartanian, Hrag. "Hrag Vartanian". Huffington Post.
  10. ↑ "Hrag Vartanian". ararat magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  11. ↑ "My "Art Market Recession Report" on NYFA's Current". Hrag Vartanian. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  12. ↑ "Hyperallergic — My interview on Al Jazeera English today about the..." Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  13. ↑ "Al Qaeda in Iraq and Maliki in Washington — To the Point — KCRW". www.kcrw.com. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  14. ↑ "Buying art on Amazon". Radio National. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  15. ↑ "Manhattan Galleries Focus in on Edward Burtynsky". WNYC. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  16. ↑ "Illustrated Verses from the 1950s on View at Woodward Gallery". WNYC. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  17. ↑ "Social Media Inspires Art Of #TheSocialGraph". WNYC. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  18. ↑ "Hide/Seek Press", www.hideseek.org. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  19. ↑ "Do Bush's Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  20. ↑ "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  21. ↑ "Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations". www.brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  22. ↑ "The Very Public Life of Street Art". www.brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  23. ↑ Kherdian, David; Agabian, Nancy (2007-10-01). Forgotten bread: first-generation Armenian American writers. Heyday Books.
  24. ↑ Burwell, Jennifer; Tschofen, Monique (2007-01-01). Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 9780889204874.
  25. ↑ Voss, Huberta v (2007-06-15). Portraits of Hope: Armenians in the Contemporary World. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845452575.
  26. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 May 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
  27. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 October 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
  28. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
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